Romeo and Juliet directed by Rupert Goold at the RSC Courtyard Theatre, Stratford. Currently running. All photographs copyright Ellie Kurttz
"Tom Scutt's design perfectly complements Goold's alternative vision for the play...This is not just a good production It is not just a great production. It is the finest Romeo and Juliet you are ever likely to see. Theatre history was made last night at the RSC Stratford."
BRITISH THEATRE GUIDE FULL REVIEW
"I can't recall as exciting a revival since Zeffirelli stunned us with his verismo in 1960."
GUARDIAN **** FULL REVIEW
"Tom Scutt's design is one of the best...An outstanding evening."
INDEPENDENT **** FULL REVIEW
"...a staging with real guts and excitement about it...a gripping, passionate Romeo and Juliet. I envy young audiences seeing it for the first time."
TELEGRAPH **** FULL REVIEW
"Rupert Goold's production is like a prolonged earthquake. Tom Scutt's designs place us in the glittering heart of the Italian Renaissance, its splendour and energy, its passion, arrogance and cruelty...the RSC at its unpredictable best."
SUNDAY TIMES **** FULL REVIEW
"...fire burns at the heart of the production: the stage full of violent uprisings, lit flames of passion, torches of desire, smoking geysers and vast cauldrons of fire, all flawlessly crafted and raising the heat even more."
WHAT'S ON STAGE **** FULL REVIEW
"positively bristles with invention and bold ideas."
EVENING STANDARD **** FULL REVIEW
"It's going to be the talk of the town."
THE STAGE FULL REVIEW
"The staging is an exceptionally bold mixture of traditional and contemporary. Tom Scutt's sets open with a projection of a rose window on the Courtyard Theatre's thrust stage, and Juliet's balcony is sometimes like the altar of a church, and sometimes like a giant gold picture frame for an Old Master painting."
WALL STREET JOURNAL FULL REVIEW
